AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

• Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM systems director console for AIX
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
• Perform logical volume and file system management
• Perform and restore system backups
• Use the AIX error log as a tool in problem determination
• Configure TCP/IP networking

This intermediate course is intended for experienced UNIX system administrators who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• Unit 2: AIX system management tools
• Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
• Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Exercise 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Unit 4: System configuration and devices
• Exercise 4: System configuration and devices

Day 2

• Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
• Exercise 5: TCP/IP implementation
• Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
• Exercise 6: System startup and shutdown
• Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
• Exercise 7: Configuring logical partitions
• Unit 8: AIX installation
• Exercise 8: AIX installation
• Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager

Day 3

• Exercise 9Working with LVM
• Unit 10: File systems administration
• Exercise 10: File systems administration
• Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
• Exercise 11: The Object Data Manager
• Unit 12: LVM metadata
• Exercise 12: LVM metadata issues
• Unit 13: Disk management procedures
• Exercise 13: Disk management procedures

Day 4

• Unit 14: Backup and restore
• Exercise 14: Backup and restore
• Unit 15: Error monitoring
• Exercise 15: Error monitoring
• Unit 16: System initialization - I
• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Parts 1-3)

Day 5

• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Part 4)
• Unit 17: System initialization - II
• Exercise 17: System initialization - II
• Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
• Exercise 18: System dump
• Unit 19, Topic 1: Alternate disk installation
• Exercise 19,Topic 1: Alternate Disk
• Unit 19, Topic 2: Using multibos
• Exercise 19: Topic 2: multibos
• Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
• Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues

Previous courses

Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning [AN11G]

Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration [AN12G]

AIX Basics – New [AN10G]

Next courses

Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination [AN15G]